xip.io

xip.io welcome screens says this : 10.0.0.1.xip.io resolves to 10.0.0.1 Why do we need to go through xip io when I can directly use the IP? Is it used to access servers by domain name instead of IP? The main use case is when your application needs to support multiple subdomains. Take for example these production subdomains: www.example.com admin.example.com members.example.com Or you can consider a multi-tenant application where each account gets its own custom subdomain: mycompany.example.com anotherguy.example.com So it's easy enough to setup a production environment to serve this requests.

I want to access from other devices (iphone, android device, etc) to my sites on homestead in my machine. My machine and all device are on same network. I want to use http://xip.io but I could not confgure it. My ip machine is 192.168.0.12 The ip for sites on Homestead is 192.168.10.10 This is the file hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 host #Virtual Hosts on Homestead 192.168.10.10 siteOne.com 192.168.10.10 siteTwo.app 192.168.10.10 otherSite.app # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6